Having some trouble deciding how much background info I need to give regarding where I got this stuff, so I'll respond to the comments on the previous post here, as well as a few updates, and then write another one for background stuff.
Much of the thinking I've been doing on this since the last post has been to compare its various workings to how one would accomplish or see the same thing from different paradigms. Mostly I've been thinking about security: how would a magician secure him or herself using, say, the spirit model, as opposed to this one? I imagine you'd have a couple different measures, breaking them down into smaller component pieces rather than, say, finding or creating one general protection spirit. For example, maybe I'd find or create one entity specifically to alert me to attacks, and house it in an amulet or some such that I'd wear; perhaps I would create a protective talisman or two to guard my house; coupled with regular cleansing/banishing of myself, the temple, the house. I would also (and do) cultivate good will with the major, god-level entities in my life, both to (ideally) keep me from encountering conflicts, and so that I'm prepared in case conflict is unavoidable.
Now, let's look at a hypothetical spirit or entity that, through summoning it or creating it or whatever, is engaged in alerting me to attack. How does this spirit know what constitutes in attack? If I've created it, I'd make sure it was strongly aligned with Mars; if it was something I'd summoned or found, I suppose I'd test it with the appropriate signs to make sure it was qualified to function as security (though I have admittedly very little experience with bringing up spirits, so this is pretty much just speculation). Either way, this spirit, by dint of its function, is presumed to be equipped with a database of recognizable attacks. Obviously I would not leave it just to this spirit, and have multiple measures in place; which will certainly be the case with the enhancile as well.
I spent a good deal of time trying to figure out how to describe the most robust attack definition library I could consider. Given that much of my current paradigm is explained through three-dimensional time, I thought that might be the way to go; or perhaps pulling from created ideaspaces, or other similar options. I eventually realized that my thinking about this case had gotten way too uptight, and this is the idea I've come up with: the tech functions by its connection to the ground of being, which necessarily holds the potential for all form. Therefore, every possible method of attack, whether its been devised yet or not, has its potentiality in the ground of being. This, I think, is how a protective spirit or entity would know how to identify an attack; having the qualities of Mars means that it is specifically concerned with, and has access to, the entire set of 'attack' and 'defence' concepts (among other things) that could possibly exist in any narrative. By describing the alert system as having access to those sets, it does, as the entire enhancile paradigm is just a system of descriptions. The only way I can see this being subverted is if the system were entirely cut off from the ground of being; but I'm not entirely sure how that would even work, as everything is a contained within it. The attacker would, I suppose, have to use an attack that immediately removed the entire concept of the security system from the mind of the target. I'll continue to put some thought into how to circumvent that. Again, I do not intend to have this be the entirety of my security; but this seems to me to be the best way of describing a threat library.
Cat points out that unless the system is smarter and wiser than the user, it is likely to get stale; and if it is smarter, it may have a different opinion than the user as to how to behave in a given situation. As I said originally, the system appears to be a... schematic, or diagram, of the energetic system of a fully enlightened being. More specifically, it is that of the user. Some time, whether this life or another, I will have reached full potential, an event that all of my narratives (except, I suppose, those that would have me fighting against this tooth and nail; but even then, I think it would still happen, just much later than when I fight to make it happen) are drawn towards. I can tap into this; and I believe that the data-spine is like a scaffolding that hastens this process. The scaffolding helps dissolve the traps that I've worked myself into over lifetimes, at the same time that it opens me up to the larger Me. First the scaffolding is installed, then it is dismantled over time as the underlying structures are completed (or complete themselves, although obviously considerable effort on my part is expended). It is, I suppose, a metaphor for, or perhaps a preparation leading to, full-blown contact with my HGA (or whatever you want to call it), an event I've not yet reached but have caught glimpses of. Thus, the system is smarter and wiser than me, my manifested consciousness, and I know that it has my best interests at heart, because it is a machine built by the greater Me for the benefit of the current, small, dense me. It doesn't become stale because it is a part of me, or a metaphor for me of which I am component part; I work very, very hard on refining and redefining myself every minute of the day, and while I, the little I, make mistakes (very frequently), the Tao does not; and every day (save for during those mistakes), I work to open myself to the Tao more and more. The enhancile system is just another way to describe that, another perspective to have; and the greater number of different perspectives I can have, the more complete an idea I'm capable of expressing about what I'm doing, which is ultimately beyond descriptions and ideas.
I suppose this means that, while different users testing this system would be installing the same system, and thus it would be similar across the board, what they're installing is the idea: "a machine to help me, in every conceivable way, to remove obstacles and help me achieve the fullest possible expression of my potential." Though perhaps that can be rendered a bit less loquaciously, I do rather have a problem with wordiness. In any case, everyone's usage and interfacing with the system would be personalized to optimally interact with their existing paradigm, simply because of the nature of what it is.
On another note, I realized while playing around with the system that new enhancelets need not be added during a superuser session. For example, I wanted it to display how my energies were divided between the classical elements, and it did just that; I also pulled up how things were divided between the ideas of alchemical salt, sulfur, and mercury. I used the information I got to re-balance things, which did seem to have an effect, but obviously this will require both long-term study and, more importantly, testing with others; it displayed about what I thought it would, but maybe it was just doing that because I thought it would display that. If I can see how the elements are balanced in someone else, and then have that confirmed by a third party, or something, that will be far more indicative of it actually working, rather than just me telling myself what I want to hear.
It is annoying having no one geographically local to me that I can work with on this, but those of you who have been giving me input are seriously a godsend; it is supremely nice to have people to talk to about this besides myself.
I'm currently planning on upgrading my own system to a beta version one week from today, on May 21 (assuming the world does not end that day, heh). Incorporating the R&D from the recent work will go a long way towards me feeling good about distributing devkits, though I will still want to test the security robustness before doing so.
In my next post I'll talk about the circumstances of my receiving this tech, as this one is already quite long. As always, any input is very appreciated.
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